I mean if you own it, it's your money. But I think I anyone else would have a difficult time making a business or technical case to justify setting up and maintaining a large scale echo-reply endpoint for... what exactly?
On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:32 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <l...@6by7.net> wrote: > Perhaps owning a (small but global) cloud computing & telecom company has > spoiled me, but it seems like a trivial amount of resources to me for any > moderately sized company let alone a large tech/telecom like anything you’d > have heard of. > > -LB > > Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE > 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC > CEO > b...@6by7.net > "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company > in the world.” > ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME > <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks> > > FCC License KJ6FJJ > > > > On Feb 9, 2022, at 12:15 PM, Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: > > Side note, am I missing something obvious where I can’t just have hardware >> routers strip ICMP, pipe it separately, put 500 VMs behind 4 vLBs and let >> the world ping the brains out of it? >> > > Seems like a lot of overhead for zero benefit. > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:11 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe < > l...@6by7.net> wrote: > >> ok that’s amazing. >> >> RFC1149 amazing. >> >> >> Side note, am I missing something obvious where I can’t just have >> hardware routers strip ICMP, pipe it separately, put 500 VMs behind 4 vLBs >> and let the world ping the brains out of it? >> >> Who owns 69.69.69.69 - collab? >> >> How naff is this? >> >> -LB >> >> Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE >> 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC >> CEO >> b...@6by7.net >> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company >> in the world.” >> ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME >> <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks> >> >> FCC License KJ6FJJ >> >> >> >> On Feb 9, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Jay Hennigan <j...@west.net> wrote: >> >> On 2/8/22 23:42, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> >> The only problem is the less friendly IP address (although this will >> be less and less a problem with IPv6, since 2001:4860:4860::8888 is >> not really friendly). >> >> >> Fun fact: Someone at Sprint had the same hobby as I did in the early >> 1970s. Their website resolves to 2600:: which I think is rather friendly. >> :-) >> >> Please don't use it for an IPv6 ping target, thanks. >> >> -- >> Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net >> Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 >> 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV >> >> >> >
